Geologist Jeri Jones will present “Your Backyard Geology” at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Apostles, 336 Barnett Ave. Admission ...

Drive 75 miles (121 kilometers) from busy Washington, D.C. and you’ll enter 200,000 acres (>80,000 hectares) of protected geography rich with history and the ghosts of Civil War soldiers vying with ...

The Appalachian Mountains, stretching from southeastern ... Due to the isolation of the mountains, combined with their ancient geology and deep-rooted traditions, the area has become renowned ...

It’s unclear if any of the items in the shelter — old posters, signs, a book about Buddha, will be swept away in the ...

After a 4.1 magnitude earthquake rattled eastern Tennessee Saturday morning, some might be wondering how often seismic events ...

A consortium of regional business, real estate, community and education leaders will participate in a symposium May 22 to begin working toward implementing housing solutions in Southwest Virginia and ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

Newly published research shows that the masked shrew, a small, mole-like mammal found in the Appalachian Mountains ... an organism to alter its physical form in response to environmental changes.

As we watch the light rain shift north, away from the WVLT viewing area, we will start to see a more substantial area of rain ...

Craving a novel Evergreen State adventure this summer? Saddle up your bike and ride the Loowit Tier, a 197-mile mountain bike ...

It wasn’t just the Metallica concert at Virginia Tech causing seismic waves this week, a 3.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Dillwyn.